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Actor Anne Heche faced surgery Tuesday and is being placed on ventilator to help her breath after she became unconscious following her involvement in a deadly car crash.
“Shortly
after the accident, Anne became unconscious, slipping into a coma and is in
critical condition,” spokeswoman Heather Duffy Boylston said in an email,
according to The Associated Press. “She has a significant pulmonary injury
requiring mechanical ventilation and burns that require surgical intervention.”
On August 5,
Heche’s car smashed into a house in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles’ westside
which was accompanied with flames with badly burned the actor. Firefighters pulled
Heche who was alone in the car and about 60 firefighters spent about an hour trying
to put off the flames, The Associated Press quoted the Los Angeles Fire
Department.
Heche is
from Ohio and has featured in a number of films including Johnny Depp in “Donnie
Brasco” and Harrison Ford in “Six Days, Seven Nights”. From 1987 to 1991, Heche
featured on the NBC soap opera “Another World” and won a Daytime Emmy Award
during the early 1990s, The Associated Press reported.
It is not
clear what caused the crash. In a 2001 memoir, “Call Me Crazy,” Heche talked
about her lifelong struggles with mental health and a childhood of abuse,
according to The Associated Press.